Having driven in Houston traffic a few times (and Dallas a lot) nothing really surprises me about this story.
From 2003:
DELEON SPRINGS, Fla. — A motorist drove home about a mile with the legless body of a pedestrian in his front windshield before calling authorities to report that he hit the man with his car, officials said.
Joseph Markert, 57, was trying to cross U.S. 1 in DeLeon Springs when he was hit by a car driven by Daniel Dradeen, 19, the Florida Highway Patrol said.
http://www.wftv.com/news/2316984/detail.html
Again from 2003:
Mallard was charged with murder for plowing into Greg Glenn Biggs, 37, with her car Oct. 26 and leaving him to die from shock and blood loss over the course of two days.
According to a police report filed against her Mallard giggled several months later as she told friends, “I hit this white man.”
After parking in the garage, she had sex with her boyfriend, then returned with him to the garage to survey the situation.
“We intend to prosecute this fully,” said Tarrant County assistant district attorney Richard Alpert.
The police report says Mallard checked on Biggs several times as he was dying in her garage, but ignored his pleas for help. After the mentally ill, homeless man died, Mallard’s boyfriend and his brother dumped the body, according to police reports.
http://www.aintnowaytogo.com/hoodOrnament.htm
July 11, 2007, 9:20PM
Police: Motorist drove home with body in windshield
Associated Press
GREEN BAY, WIS. A motorist hit two pedestrians, then drove home with one of the bodies lodged in his windshield, police said. The man in the windshield died.
Police said Steve Warrichaiet was drunk when he struck the pedestrians as he returned home from a friend’s house late Sunday. One pedestrian was found lying on a street, critically injured, and police said the second victim remained lodged in Warrichaiet’s windshield while he drove seven blocks home and parked in his garage.
Warrichaiet’s sister, Donna Gutowski, said he called her early Monday to tell her he had killed someone. She said she didn’t believe him.
Warrichaiet called police about 5:40 a.m. Monday, reporting that he thought he hit someone, authorities said. Tyrone Ware, 50, of Green Bay, was pronounced dead when police arrived at the home.
http://www.warriortalk.com/archive/index.php/t-25770.html
I guess it isn’t all that rare.